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Story: Kraken Backs Cardano With $1 Billion Stake as Iran Strikes Hammer ADA to $0.1572

By James Thorp

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Kraken's $1 Billion Cardano Bet. And yet, somebody big is betting on ADA. In June, Kraken registered 12 Cardano stake pools and put…

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ADA's Technical Picture: Three Possible Paths. The technicals are murky right now. The 20-day EMA sits at $0.

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LiquidChain Emerges as Early-Stage Play. One project trying to capitalize on the current environment is LiquidChain, which is positioning…

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Cardano got hit hard. Iran launched strikes across five countries on July 13, and ADA dropped to an intraday low of $0.1572 before clawing back some ground. It's trading around $0.

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The geopolitical shock rattled crypto markets broadly, but ADA felt it sharply. The coin was already sitting near the lower end of its recent range, and the news basically…

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And yet, somebody big is betting on ADA. In June, Kraken registered 12 Cardano stake pools and put roughly $1 billion in ADA to work. That's not a routine treasury move.

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Cardano's developer activity is holding up too. The platform logged 233 GitHub commits in the past week alone, ranking fifth among all Layer-1 networks. That's 6.

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The technicals are murky right now. The 20-day EMA sits at $0.1667 — just above where ADA is currently trading — and that level is kind of the line in the sand. The RSI is at 43.

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Three scenarios seem plausible from here. If ADA can hold above the 20-day EMA and stabilize, it might grind toward $0.19. That's the optimistic read.

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See also: Iran Strikes Again, Dollar Wobbles, and Yen Feels the Pension Squeeze

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That last part matters. Right now, risk-off sentiment is pushing capital toward the two largest crypto assets.

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The bullish divergence structure that had been building since June is now under serious pressure.

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One project trying to capitalize on the current environment is LiquidChain, which is positioning itself as a Layer 3 infrastructure play focused on cross-chain liquidity.

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Worth noting: early-stage presales like LiquidChain carry real risks. Non-delivery, illiquidity, and project failure are all on the table.

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See also: Bitcoin Holds $63,800 While Gold and Oil Whipsaw on U.S.-Iran Strikes

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